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2017 · comedy

Jealous

Directed by Stéphane Foenkinos, David Foenkinos1h 42m2017
ElsewhereIMDb6.12kRT88%
  • intimate
Movie DNA

Neutral, kinetic, gentle comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A divorced teacher suddenly becomes jealous of everyone, including her daughter, friends and neighbors.

Our read · Jealous (2017) reads as a neutral, kinetic, grounded comedy entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a French comedy about a mother jealous of her own daughter's youth and life.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 8attention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around
Heads-upcringe humiliation

Skip it tonightSkip if mother-daughter tension or petty jealousy stories annoy you.

DNA · twelve axes

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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